The second performance was Thursday afternoon (July 24). Bill Gundry, the gifted actor and director who runs the program, staged the performances as if the actors were auditioning. Most of them introduced themselves then performed short monologues.

Some delivered memorized pieces; some performed readers theater style, with scripts in hand. The material was mostly comic — playwright Neil Simon was represented by both a scene from “The Sunshine Boys” and “The Odd Couple” (both featuring Pete Sanchez) — though there were a few more dramatic pieces, including an adaptation of a monologue from the novel “The Help” performed by Patricia Brown.

The other actors were Karen Matson, who performed an adaptation of “I Feel Bad About My Neck;” Loretta Goulden, who performed a monologue from the play “The Waiting Room;” Linda Manson, who performed “Namaste, Bitch”; Eva Marie Girard, who performed “The Reader;” and Javier Cortinas, who performed “The Mad Man” and shared the stage with Sanchez for “The Odd Couple” scene. Sanchez also performed a monologue from the play “Henry and Tom,” and Brown also did a scene from “Auntie Mame.”